The loneliness of the no-compromise director
Content-driven cinema has few backers in Mumbai. So we have to go looking for production funds in Europe. It opens things up for us. We ...
I AM — NO MORE PRETENCES
‘If you don’t have anything to say, you don’t have to’… hmm! That’s … it.. that is a sure enough bait for me to ramble ...
Bollywood: A poignant examination of a universal problem
I AM is slowly paced – the tension tightening little by little in a protracted sequence of small, domestic scenes. For that reason alone, it ...
I am is a courageous film
A well crafted, introspective, intelligent cinema that looms tall over much of what we see in contemporary Hindi cinema. With I am, film director Onir, ...
Therefore, I AM
Rating: 9.0/10 Onir’s “I AM” is a phenomenal result of a sort of mass audience movement with a strong commonality of purpose. The film unfolds ...
I Am Who I Am
It is one of those few movies that you would watch crouching in the seat, with your legs folded against your chest, not realizing that ...
Angry, honest, bold: 4 stars – Review by Suparna Sharma
Most movies these days are desperate to please. They want to make you happy, to seduce you with sexy songs, sexy bodies, sexy locations. They ...
I Am review: Soulful and honest! – 3 stars – Sify
Sonia Chopra The film’s intent is undoubted – it aims at breaking shackles, at shocking people out of numbness, and telling them what’s going on ...
I AM impressed!
My take on “I AM” I AM is a mature movie that conveys four bold issues, which are often skirted off. It very beautifully portrays ...
I AM – A truly international film
I AM is a film that utilised social media networks like Facebook to rustle up funds from random investors and got made on a budget ...
An inconvenient truth
Perhaps it’s an indicator of the image trap that Onir is caught in that his latest film I Am has made news all these months ...
Why I am is what it set out to be
By- Aseem Chhabra In November 2009, filmmaker Onir and his producer-actor friend Sanjay Suri brought a short film to the Indo American Arts ...
